Chapter Summaries

Ye Qiu asked his younger self to let him observe his life while he removed the Sun God divine position, hoping to recover his original heart. After receiving summoning cards, Young Shi Qiu began pursuing his old dream of helping characters from Battle Through the Heavens, starting by seeking Qing Lin.

• Ye Qiu worried that becoming a god had made him cold and detached, and asked Young Shi Qiu to let him stay nearby and observe him after relinquishing his divine position.
• Young Shi Qiu agreed, and Ye Qiu said he would enter seclusion for a month to remove the Sun God divine position.
• Ye Qiu gave Young Shi Qiu several A-rank Character Summoning Cards and one S-rank card, urging him to hold on to his original dreams.
• Young Shi Qiu summoned Wang Yi, Xiao Feng, and Lin Pingzhi, and ordered his men to find Qing Lin in the Tagor Desert and bring her safely to Green Mountain Town.

Young Shi Qiu summoned four loyal characters and prepared to travel to the Tagor Desert to find Qing Lin and the Green Lotus Core Flame. Meanwhile, Ye Qiu began transferring his Sun God divine status to a clone, and another clone returned from Wu Tan City with an unexpected person.

• Young Shi Qiu used one S-Rank and three A-Rank Character Summoning Cards to summon Xiong Ba, Xin Yuekui, Bai Feng, and Li Jing.
• Young Shi Qiu ordered the four to accompany him to the Tagor Desert to find Qing Lin and retrieve the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Ye Qiu watched his younger self's plans and transferred his Sun God divine status to a clone to test whether it affected his emotions.
• Young Shi Qiu gave Wang Yi and the others instructions, then set off for the Tagor Desert with the summoned characters.
• Ye Qiu's clone returned from Wu Tan City after seizing the Tou She Ancient God Jade and brought back someone unexpected.

Ye Qiu's avatar persuaded Qi to target the Xiao Family, explaining that they might hold the Source of Emperor he needed to become a Dou Di. After the avatar vanished, Qi heard Xiao Yan and Xun Er nearby and decided to take the Xiao Family's jade.

• Qi followed Ye Qiu's avatar to Green Mountain City and wondered why the young man knew his name.
• Ye Qiu's avatar told Qi that he could become a Dou Di and defeat the Ancient Eight Clans if he advanced further.
• Ye Qiu's avatar pointed out the Xiao Family, and Qi realized they might possess the Source of Emperor.
• Qi agreed to handle the Xiao Family while Ye Qiu's avatar faded away and revealed his name from afar.
• Qi overheard Xiao Yan and Xun Er talking and concluded that the Xiao Family would be his target.

After the diplomatic meeting, Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er went shopping while Xiao Ning was ordered to gather supplies. Xiao Zhan returned to the inn and found a white-haired young man waiting in his room, who asked whether he was the Xiao Clan's current Clan Leader.

• Gu Xun'er asked Xiao Yan how powerful the Huaxia Empire was, and he admitted he did not know its full strength.
• Xiao Zhan encouraged Xiao Yan to take Gu Xun'er shopping, while Xiao Ning resented being assigned to buy supplies.
• Xiao Zhan returned to the inn with several Elders and told them he had arranged for young ladies to visit.
• Xiao Zhan found a white-haired young man calmly drinking tea in his room, and the visitor asked whether he was Xiao Zhan, the current Clan Leader of the Xiao Clan.

Qi visited the Xiao Family to demand the Tou She Ancient God Jade, but Xiao Zhan mistook him for an old family friend and repeatedly insulted him. The chapter left Xiao Zhan injured after Qi kicked him through a door and threatened to wipe out the Xiao Clan.

• Qi went to meet Xiao Zhan and claimed to be an old family friend, but Xiao Zhan called him a nephew and encouraged him to sit for tea.
• Xiao Zhan mocked Qi’s name and his parents, making Qi increasingly hostile.
• Qi identified himself as the continent’s number one expert and demanded that Xiao Zhan hand over the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Qi kicked Xiao Zhan through the door and threatened to destroy the Xiao Clan, shocking the injured Xiao Zhan.

Qi confronted Xiao Zhan over the Tou She Ancient God Jade, overwhelming him with his Half-Emperor aura. Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er arrived, and Xun'er recognized Qi, panicked, and fled with Xiao Yan.

• Qi injured Xiao Zhan, then restrained him with his powerful aura when Xiao Zhan tried to fight back.
• Xiao Zhan asked Qi about the Tou She Ancient God Jade, and Qi explained that it had been passed down through the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan returned to the inn with Gu Xun'er and found Xiao Zhan on the ground and the three elders trapped by space.
• Xiao Zhan warned Gu Xun'er to take Xiao Yan and escape from Qi.
• Gu Xun'er recognized Qi, shouted for Xiao Yan to run, and dragged him out of the inn.

Gu Xun'er remembered how Qi had overwhelmed the Ancient Seven Clans at the Heavenly Tomb Ceremony and tried to flee with Xiao Yan when he appeared at the Xiao Family. Qi used his control over space to bring them back to the inn, where he taunted them to keep running.

• Four years earlier, Qi crashed the Gu Clan's Heavenly Tomb Ceremony and sent Elder Tongxuan and the gathered disciples flying with a single punch.
• Gu Xun'er watched her father arrive to fight Qi, only for Qi to kick him away and later consume more than half the Heavenly Tomb's energy imprints.
• In the present, Gu Xun'er recognized Qi as the man who had shattered her faith and dragged Xiao Yan away from the inn.
• Xiao Yan objected that his father was still there, but Gu Xun'er stopped when Qi's spatial power returned them to the inn.
• Qi sat drinking tea and told Gu Xun'er and Xiao Yan to keep running, teasing that he would bring them back when dinner was ready.

Qi confronted Gu Xun'er and the Xiao Family, incapacitated Xiao Yan, and revealed that their ancestors and Xiao Zhan had offended him. He then took Gu Xun'er and the Xiao Family members into his small world, leaving the mercenaries behind.

• Gu Xun'er apologized to Qi and tried to placate him after he returned her and Xiao Yan to Green Mountain City.
• Qi misread Gu Xun'er's respectful behavior as an attempt to seduce him, while Xiao Yan grew jealous and accused her of flirting with their enemy.
• Qi snapped his fingers and drained Xiao Yan's Dou Qi, causing him to collapse.
• Gu Xun'er tried to leave with Xiao Yan and the Xiao Family Elders, but Qi said their ancestors and Xiao Zhan had offended him.
• Qi swept Gu Xun'er and the Xiao Family members into his small world, then followed them inside.

Ye Qiu began transferring the Sun God divine position to his clone while Qi interrogated Xiao Zhan and the others for the Tou She Ancient God Jade. Xiao Zhan finally revealed where the Ancient Jade was hidden, leaving Qi startled by the location.

• Ye Qiu learned that Qi had begun seizing the Tou She Ancient God Jade and started transferring the Sun God divine position to his clone.
• Qi held Xiao Zhan, Xiao Yan, Gu Xun'er, and the Xiao Family's three Elders captive in his Personal Space and demanded the Ancient Jade.
• Qi bound the captives with Space Chains and tightened them until they cried out in pain.
• Xiao Yan urged Xiao Zhan to surrender the Ancient Jade, but Xiao Zhan initially resisted because it had been passed down through the family.
• After Qi threatened to kill the Xiao Family, Xiao Zhan said the Ancient Jade was in the hidden compartment of his private outhouse, and Qi asked him to repeat the location.

Qi turned Xiao Zhan and the other Xiao Family members into a latrine after Xiao Zhan revealed that the Tou She Ancient God Jade was hidden in one. He spared Gu Xun'er and threatened to exchange her for the Gu Clan’s jade, leaving her in his hands.

• Xiao Zhan told Qi that the Tou She Ancient God Jade was hidden in a compartment in his private latrine, but Qi suspected he was being mocked.
• Qi used spatial energy to build a latrine around Xiao Zhan, then transformed Xiao Yan and the Xiao Family’s three Elders into part of it as well.
• Qi spared Gu Xun'er, while Xiao Yan misread his mercy as evidence that Gu Xun'er had been unfaithful to him.
• Xiao Zhan swore that he had told the truth before Qi sealed the completed latrine.
• Qi threatened to trade Gu Xun'er for the Gu Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade, or keep her as a foot-washing maid.

Qi imprisoned Gu Xun'er in his private space while he searched Green Mountain City for Bewilderment Dou Techniques, and Gu Xun'er failed to reach Xiao Yan behind a barrier. Meanwhile, Ye Qiu transferred the Sun God divine position to his clone and received a system reward, though the system praised his courage rather than confirming his conjecture.

• Qi sealed Gu Xun'er and mocked her before explaining that her father could exchange the Ancient Jade for her release.
• Qi suppressed Gu Xun'er's Golden Emperor Burning Flame, left her in his private space, and departed for Green Mountain City.
• Gu Xun'er rushed to the latrine to rescue Xiao Yan but struck the barrier Qi had placed around it.
• Qi entered a castle he believed was the embassy to search for Bewilderment Dou Techniques.
• Ye Qiu and his clone transferred the Sun God divine position, and the system awarded Ye Qiu 10,000 Myriad Realms Coins and a Boundary Gate.

Ye Qiu questioned whether the Sun God divine position had changed his personality, then received a mission to help Qi obtain the Ancient Jade. Meanwhile, young Shi Qiu searched the Tagor Desert for Qing Lin, where he encountered hidden figures so ugly that he vomited.

• Ye Qiu considered whether his personality change came from the Sun God divine position or from his experiences, and decided to study matters beyond combat.
• The system assigned Ye Qiu a mission to support Qi in obtaining the Ancient Jade of the Ancient Eight Clans and opening the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode, with a Seven Aperture Exquisite Heart as the reward.
• Ye Qiu sensed Qi at the embassy and went to meet him after sealing the clone that held the Sun God divine position.
• Young Shi Qiu and his group arrived in the Tagor Desert, and he set out to find Qing Lin and take her in.
• Li Jing detected hidden figures beneath the sand and forced them into view, prompting young Shi Qiu to vomit at their appearance.

Shi Qiu and his protectors entered the Tagor Desert searching for Qing Lin and clashed with a group of Snake-People, whom Xiong Ba and Li Jing killed. After the Snake-People failed to identify Qing Lin, Xin Yuekui suggested enlisting their race to search for her, while the chapter ended with an author poll about Xiao Yan and the Ancient Eight Clans.

• Shi Qiu declined to pay Myriad Realms Coins to scan the approaching Snake-People captain.
• The captain attacked Shi Qiu's group, and Xiong Ba killed him with Three Parts Returning to Origin Qi.
• Shi Qiu discovered an Ice Attribute Magic Core in the captain's body, and Li Jing reported that the other Snake-People had not seen Qing Lin.
• Shi Qiu allowed Li Jing to kill the remaining Snake-People with the Xuanyuan Loyal Arrow.
• Xin Yuekui suggested asking the Snake-People to help search the desert for Qing Lin.
• The author asked readers to choose how Xiao Yan and the Ancient Eight Clans should be dealt with.

The younger Shi Qiu enlisted the Snake-People tribes to find Qing Lin while Ye Qiu met with Qi in Green Mountain City. Qi asked Ye Qiu for help interrogating Xiao Clan descendants he had built into an outhouse to learn where the Tou She Ancient God Jade was.

• The younger Shi Qiu had Xin Yuekui, Li Jing, Xiong Ba, and Bai Feng transform into snake-people and force the Snake-People tribes to search for Qing Lin.
• The younger Shi Qiu defeated Yan Ci and ordered the Flame Snake Tribe to find Qing Lin within three days or face death.
• Ye Qiu sensed his younger self searching Tagor Desert for Qing Lin, then went to meet Qi.
• Qi showed Ye Qiu an image of five Xiao Clan descendants embedded in a house and asked for a bewildering Dou Technique to question them about the Tou She Ancient God Jade.

Ye Qiu learned why Qi had turned Xiao Zhan and four other Xiao Family disciples into an outhouse, then brought out his Mangekyo Sharingan to interrogate Xiao Zhan about the Tou She Ancient God Jade. The chapter ended as Ye Qiu used genjutsu on Xiao Zhan.

• Ye Qiu considered Qi's treatment of the Xiao Family disciples but decided not to interfere.
• Qi explained that Xiao Zhan had provoked him and that he was interrogating the disciples to find the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Ye Qiu used his cultivation to see what had happened and learned that Xiao Zhan had called Qi his uncle.
• Ye Qiu revealed his Mangekyo Sharingan and told Qi it could help extract the Ancient Jade's location.
• Ye Qiu and Qi entered Qi's Personal Space, removed the outhouse, and exposed the five trapped Xiao Family disciples.
• Ye Qiu lifted Xiao Zhan into the air and used Sharingan genjutsu to interrogate him.

Ye Qiu used Genjutsu to question Xiao Zhan about the Tou She Ancient God Jade while Qi beat Xiao Yan nearly to death. Xiao Zhan revealed the jade was hidden in his personal outhouse, and just as Qi prepared to attack him, Xiao Yan spoke up to defend his father.

• Ye Qiu questioned Xiao Zhan under Genjutsu about the Tou She Ancient God Jade, while Qi stepped in to fight Xiao Yan.
• Qi’s intangible body let Xiao Yan’s punch pass through, then Qi kicked Xiao Yan across the ground and badly wounded him.
• Gu Xun’er rushed to Xiao Yan’s side as Ye Qiu continued questioning Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Zhan revealed that the Ancient Jade was in a secret compartment in his personal outhouse, enraging Qi.
• Qi raised his hand to attack Xiao Zhan, but Xiao Yan told him not to hurt his father.

Qi attacked Xiao Yan after Xiao Yan called him “Daddy,” while Gu Xun’er refused to abandon Xiao Yan. Gu Yuan’s Avatar emerged from Gu Xun’er to intercept Qi’s attack, leaving Ye Qiu expecting it to be killed again.

• Xiao Yan begged Qi not to hurt his daddy, making Qi furious when he realized the speaker was Xiao Yan rather than a young child.
• Gu Xun’er pleaded with Qi to spare Xiao Yan, but Qi advanced and prepared to kill them both.
• Ye Qiu recalled Xiao Yan’s past attempts to take the Purifying Lotus Demon Fire Remnant Map and Green Lotus Core Flame, and thought of missing Qian Renxue.
• Qi fired a spatial energy ball at Xiao Yan and Gu Xun’er, but Gu Xun’er refused to leave Xiao Yan’s side.
• Gu Yuan’s Avatar appeared from within Gu Xun’er and collided with Qi’s attack.

Gu Yuan’s avatar emerged from Gu Xun’er to shield her and Xiao Yan from Qi, but Qi overwhelmed his resistance with the Extreme Zero Empty Light. Gu Yuan tried to flee with the two children, only for Qi to use his domain to send them back toward their starting point.

• Gu Yuan’s avatar blocked Qi’s spatial attack with the Golden Emperor Burning Flame and protected Gu Xun’er and Xiao Yan from its aftermath.
• Qi summoned the Extreme Zero Empty Light and dismissed Gu Yuan’s attempt to smooth over their conflict.
• Qi told Gu Yuan that Gu Xun’er had chosen to be buried alongside Xiao Yan, alarming and frustrating her father.
• Gu Yuan grabbed Gu Xun’er and Xiao Yan and fled, while using the Golden Emperor Burning Flame to delay Qi.
• Qi crushed Gu Yuan’s flames, tracked the fleeing trio within his domain, and used Space Displacement to return them to their starting point.

Qi used spatial power to bring Gu Yuan, Gu Xun'er, and Xiao Yan back, then defeated Gu Yuan’s avatar and annihilated the soul trace within it. Ye Qiu agreed to help Qi pursue the Xiao and Gu clans’ Ancient Jades, and Qi exposed Xiao Yan’s feigned foolishness by revealing that his earlier kick had struck Xiao Yan’s kidney.

• Qi transported Gu Yuan, Gu Xun'er, and Xiao Yan back to his Personal Space after Gu Yuan tried to flee.
• Qi confronted Gu Yuan over helping Xiao Xuan and the Xiao Clan remnants, while Gu Yuan denied that Xiao Yan was his son-in-law.
• Qi’s Extreme Zero Empty Light overwhelmed Gu Yuan’s Golden Emperor Burning Flame and dispersed Gu Yuan’s avatar, damaging his true body through the destroyed soul trace.
• Qi asked Ye Qiu to help find the Xiao Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade and seize the Gu Clan’s Ancient Jade, and Ye Qiu agreed.
• Qi pointed out that Xiao Yan had been pretending to act foolish and revealed that he had kicked Xiao Yan in the kidney.

Qi’s kick fatally injured Xiao Yan, while Ye Qiu learned that completing his hidden mission had opened a path back to his original world. The story left Ye Qiu focused on the chance to return as Gu Xun’er realized Xiao Yan had died.

• Xiao Yan discovered that Qi’s kick had shattered one of his kidneys and tried to reassure himself that he could still be with women.
• Qi explained that he had meant to kick Xiao Yan in the chin but struck his kidney when Xiao Yan dodged.
• Xiao Yan spat blood and collapsed in Gu Xun’er’s arms as the System announced that his death completed Ye Qiu’s hidden mission and opened the Origin World Gate.
• Ye Qiu learned that the Origin World Gate connected to his original world and that completing the remaining half of his mission would let him return to his original time.
• Gu Xun’er realized Xiao Yan had stopped breathing, and Ye Qiu told Qi that Xiao Yan had been angered to death.